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Eat and Shop at the Boardwalk

Image: DisneyYou’ll never go hungry at the Boardwalk. The strip features ESPN Club, an intimate sports bar where visitors can catch a game while they’re at Disney. Also, what good would a trip to the Boardwalk be without ice cream? Ample Hills Creamery fills this void with several tasty frozen treats. And Flying Fish Café offers a decadent seafood menu including Skull Island prawns, Chilean sea bass, and Hokkaido scallops. Meat lovers also have the option of succulent wagyu beef.

The Boardwalk Bakery has a sterling reputation for its tasty delicacies. Big River Grille & Brewing Works places guests side by side with the machinery that crafts the adult beverages that gets them drunk. The new star of the Boardwalk is Trattoria al Forno, which offers Italian cuisine at night plus a character meal breakfast with personalities from Tangled and The Little Mermaid.

Image: DisneyAs for the shopping, Dundy’s Sundries inside Disney’s Boardwalk Villas offers all sorts of fun Disney merchandise. ESPN Club also has a store full of licensed team gear and apparel with the ESPN logo on it. The real treat, however, is Wyland Galleries. It displays some of the highest quality art available for sale onsite at Walt Disney World. You should take the time to walk through it if you never have before. It’s absolutely breathtaking.

One final note about Disney’s Boardwalk Villas is that the restaurants aren’t technically in the hotel. Instead, they’re at the Boardwalk. While that’s a splitting of hairs to many, you might care if you mind the walk to dinner. Conversely, guests who love to rack up a few extra steps on the pedometer can boost their dining options dramatically. The hotel is only about 500 steps away from the World Showcase.

People willing to walk there will have the run of the place in terms of dining options, which means 11 nations of cuisine are up for grabs when you stay at Disney’s Boardwalk Villas. This is one of the reasons why the hotel books up so early for Disney’s Epcot International Food & Wine Festival. It’s a short walk away from the festivities. Folks who love to drink also have an equally brief return trip from Epcot when they’re….shall we say, tipsy.

The creepy pool

Image: DisneyHow do you feel about clowns? For no apparent reason, Disney’s Boardwalk Villas claims one of the true oddities of Walt Disney World. Their gorgeous pool area has a giant water slide. It’s so big that it looks like an old-timey roller coaster from a distance, which is probably the intent. If the hotel setting is Coney Island, the pool slide is the legendary Cyclone.

There’s just one catch.

The end of the slide sees the guest sliding out of a clown’s mouth. It’s the stuff of nightmares and possibly the inspiration for Stephen King’s It. Okay, those dates don’t line up since the book came out a decade before the hotel opened. What’s important here is that if you’re afraid of clowns, a perfectly reasonable conclusion, you shouldn’t look at the slide while you’re at the pool.

The Creepy Clown is real, and it is terrifying. Image: Disney

Thankfully, the area is large enough that you’ll have plenty of other distractions that might keep your eye from being drawn toward…no, I’m kidding. You can’t help but stare at the clown. Use the quiet pool at Community Hall instead if you don’t want to slide out of the clown’s mouth.

 
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Doe ESPN still have the gift shop? I was afraid it got removed with the arcade when they added Ample Hills.

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Glazier
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the surname, see Glazier (surname)

A glazier at work, 1946

This Deutsche Bundespost postage stamp, issued in 1986, commemorates glaziers
A glazier is a skilled tradesman responsible for trimming, installing, and removing cup (and materials used as substitutes for glass, such as some plastics) [1 - Glaziers may work with glass in various surface types and settings, such as home windows, doors, shower doorways, skylights, storefronts, display cases, mirrors, facades, interior walls, ceilings, and tabletops [1 - [2 -

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3 Occupational hazards
4 In the United States
5 See also
6 Notes
7 External links
Duties and tools[edit -

A couple of glazier tools
The Occupational Perspective Handbook of the U S Department of Labor lists the next as typical duties for a glazier:

Follow specifications or blueprints
Remove any old or broken glass before installing replacement cup
Cut glass to the specified form and size
Make or install sashes or moldings for cup installation
Fasten cup into sashes or frames with clips, moldings, or other types of fasteners
Add weather seal or putty around pane edges to seal bones [3 -
The National Occupational Analysis recognized by the Canadian Council of Directors of Apprenticeship separates the trade into 5 prevents of skills, each with a summary of skills, and a list of tasks and subtasks a journeyman is expected to have the ability to accomplish:[4 -

Block A - Occupational Skills

1 Uses and maintains equipment and tools

2 Organizes work

3 Performs regular activities

Stop B - Commercial Door and Screen Systems

4 Fabricates commercial door and screen systems

5 Installs commercial door and home window systems

Block C - Residential Door and Windows Systems

6 Installs residential windows systems

7 Installs home door systems

Stop D - Niche Products and Cup

8 Installs and Fabricates specialty cup and products

9 Installs glass systems on vehicles

Block E - Servicing

10 Services commercial door and screen systems

11 Services home screen and door systems

12 Services specialty products and glass

Tools utilized by glaziers "include reducing boards, glass-cutting blades, straightedges, glazing knives, saws, drills, grinders, putty, and glazing compounds "[1 -

Some glaziers work specifically with glass in automobiles; other work specifically with the security cup found in aircraft [1 - [3 -

Education and training[edit -
Glaziers are typically educated at the senior high school diploma or equivalent level and find out the skills of the trade via an apprenticeship program, which in the U S is typically four years [3 -

In the U S , apprenticeship programs are offered through the Country wide Cup Association as well as trade associations and local companies' associations Construction-industry glaziers are frequently associates of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades [1 -

In Ontario, Canada, apprenticeships are offered at the provincial level and authorized through the Ontario College of Trades [5 -

Other provinces manage their own apprenticeship programs
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The Trade of Glazier is a designated Red Seal Trade in Canada [6 -

Occupational hazards[edit -
Occupational hazards encountered by glaziers include the risks of being trim by glass or tools and dropping from scaffolds or ladders [1 - [3 - The usage of heavy equipment may also cause injury: the National Institute for Occupational Security and Health (NIOSH) reported in 1990 that a journeyman glazier died within an industrial incident in Indiana after wanting to use a manlift to transport a thousand-pound case of glass which the manlift didn't have capacity to transport [7 -

In the United States[edit -
According to the Occupational Outlook Handbook, there are a few 45,300 glaziers in the United States, with median pay of $38,410 per yr in 2014 [3 - Two-thirds of Glaziers work in the foundation, structure, and building exterior contractors industry, with smaller numbers employed in building provides and material working, building finishing contracting, automotive maintenance and repair, and glass and glass product manufacturing [2 - [3 -

Among the 50 states, only Connecticut and Florida require glaziers to carry a license [3 -

See also[edit -
Architectural glass
Glazing in architecture
Insulated glazing
Stained glass
Glass manufacturing
Glassblowing

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